 | TheKrowe says:
2/27/2012 7:19:00 PM
Welcome to the forum, group, and the world of resonator guitars! The Rogue is a good choice for a new guitar student. You get a lot of bang for your buck from these Chinese imports. The key to the Spider's tone is that they use a hand spun resonator cone. It sounds much better than a stamped cone or Grandma's old pie pan.
You mentioned open G tuning and I immediately began to worry, as there is one that works well on a round neck and is very popular among Delta bluesmen. From low bass to high treble it is tuned DGDGBD, which actually relieves some of the strain on your instrument's neck. The other open G tuning, very popular among the square neck players on this forum, is GBDGBD. It is the "standard" resonator tuning but the extra tension it places on your neck will permanently warp it, crack it, and destroy it in short order. I hope you have been using the dropped open G tuning.
Beginning instruction will rightly teach in standard guitar tuning, EADGBE. I strongly recommend you go there and learn the basics first, before you venture into specialties like slide guitar. By the way, strings 3, 4, and 5 in standard tuning give you an open G that a lot of people exploit with some occasional slide licks without having to retune your guitar. Learn your basics, a little theory, build some callouses and strength in your fingers, and then begin to play with your slide.
The best educational resource for learning guitar from the very beginning has a pulse. See if there is a teacher in your area that can help you get started correctly without any bad habits. Once you've learned one it's really hard to fix. Expect to pay about $25 an hour for your average teacher.
There is an alternative that I will highly recommend; a resource I've used for over 25 years. That is Homespun Tapes. Back in the day they actually distributed their instructional material on paper and cassette tapes. Now everything comes on DVD with movies showing both right and left hand activity during the instruction. Miss or forget something? Rewind it and watch it again; something you can not do with a live teacher. They have a bunch of material for absolute beginning guitarists. You can order hard copy media, or for a substantial discount, order downloadable instruction to your computer. Here is a link to their beginner lessons. Browse around from there and check out the depth of their catalog. There is a ton of instruction for virtually every style of guitar out there.
homespuntapes.com/Instruments/...ng-guitar
Enjoy!
Kelly
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 | John Gribble says:
2/28/2012 12:14:14 AM
I would suggest you look into Bob Brozman's materials. He's got books, DVDs, CDs, and some videos up on youtube. Learn the techniques and the style of music doesn't matter.
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c_m_shooter says:
3/6/2012 4:16:06 PM
I also have a couple of Bob Brozeman's videos and the are great, but for a beginnining player I would recomend Pete Wernick's bluegrass Jam videos. In the beginer video, you will be mostly chording along with the rythm, but the internediate one gives you two solo breaks in every song to start learn to improvise on. I think these are great no matter what instrument you are playing, and if you want to experiment with the low G tuning it works extremely well for that style of music. ( the top four strings are the same as a banjo).
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